Beware the beginning of the NHL season, Canadian NHL fans. You still haven’t seen a home victory.

The Toronto Maple Leafs and the Ottawa Senators will face their home fans Monday night, but so far the teams are 0-4 in home openers. Can they break the doughnut for long-suffering Canadian fans, who just lived through a lockout and haven’t seen a Canadian Stanley Cup victory in 20 years.

In Ottawa, they are promising fans a free 14-ounce coupon for a Molson Canadian beer. Will fans use this to drown their sorrows after a loss?

They face the tougher-than-you-think Florida Panthers, who manhandled the Hurricanes 5-1 in their home opener. Rookie sensation Jonathan Huberdeau, who recently tallied nine points in six games at the world juniors, scored a goal and two assists in his NHL debut.

The Senators are pulling on fans heart strings, with their welcome back video that is posted on the web site.

The Canucks resurrected Roberto Luongo from the scrap heap, after Schneider was benched. Luongo got the start on Sunday vs. the Oilers, also a loss.

In Winnipeg, Jets fans were in full throat as they welcomed the Senators to start the season at 3 p.m. ET Saturday. You could feel the emotion through the TV screen as the fans roared. When Dustin Byfuglien scored, the place went wild.

In Montreal, the team held an emotional ceremony with a bunch of former team captains who walked around the arena with an actual burning torch. It was passed on to the next one and so on. The torch was eventually given to current team captain Brian Gionta, who accepted it and skated around briefly.

Nobody does these openers quite so classy as Montreal and there were many a lumpy throat and teary eye in the house and around the country.